like many AAGPBL players, were relatively unknown until the Marshall's film was exhibited for the first time. After that, the AAGPBL Players Association reunions became formal annual events in 1998. Ruth Lessing died of cancer in her homeland of San Antonio at the age of 75. In 2006, she was awarded a posthumous induction into the Texas Baseball Hall of Fame. She is part of the AAGPBL permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York, opened in , which is dedicated to the entire league rather than any individual player. Career statistics Batting Fielding References External links All-American Girls Professional Baseball League players Minneapolis Millerettes players Fort Wayne Daisies players Grand Rapids Chicks players Baseball players from San Antonio Deaths from cancer in Texas 1925 births 2000 deaths 20th-century American women